555 I remember those days - I sat with my Nokia and Oxford Mandarin - English dictionary (the red one! Still the best dictionary I ever owned) at home trying to text in pinyin without tone marks.
I asked my flat mate to 995 me and he installed Chinese characters on my phone which was 666!
Spent many happy evenings sending text messages in Mandarin, including to people who couldnt speak Chinese. I just refused to write anything in English while studying. What was quite 233 sometimes.
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